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End-to-End Learned Driving on Public Roads

13 June 2026

A developer demonstrated an end-to-end, learning-based driving system generalising to new cities with minimal hand-engineered rules.

Modular autonomy stacks require extensive hand-engineering and city-by-city tuning that scales poorly.

An end-to-end approach learned driving behaviour directly from data, with a foundation-model backbone intended to generalise across environments.

The system drove in cities it had not been explicitly tuned for, suggesting a path to scaling autonomy without rebuilding rules for every new market.

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